Profile
Associate Professor at the Departament d'Estructura Economica,
Universitat de València. Born in Spain, he previously held academic
position at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has been visiting
researcher at the Politecnico di Milano, visiting professor at the
European Business Module of the Università degli Studi di Firenze and
teacher in the master courses of the Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya and Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya. He has been
external consultant for the OECD and has participated in applied
research for the Barcelona City Hall, Barcelona's Province Government
and the Spanish Ministry of Industry.

Education He completed his degree in Economics
at the University of Valencia, and obtained his MSc in Applied Economics
in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona in 2003.

Hervás J.L. and Boix, R. (2011): “The
Economic Geography of meso-global spaces: a theoretical cross-field
integration to unfold fundamentals of the regional-global phenomenon”,
Workshop Clusters in Global Value Chains / Production Networks: What
is the role of innovation systems?, Orkestra Basque Institute of
Competitiveness, 20th and 21st of October, Donostia – San Sebastian.

Sforzi, F., Boix, R. and De Propris, L.
(2011): “In search of industrial districts in European countries: the
case of Italy, Spain and Great Britain”, 51th European Congress of the
Regional Science Association International, Barcelona 30th August - 3rd
September 2011.

Capone, Francesco and Rafael Boix
(2004): "Sources
of competitiveness in tourist local systems", Working
Paper 0408 Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona // Paper presented at the XXX Reunion de
Estudios Regionales, Barcelona 18-19 November 2004 and the
45th European Congress of the European
Regional Science Association. Amsterdam, 23-27 August 2005.